Adrian McNally

Adrian McNally is a record producer, a composer/songwriter and a musician with English folk group the Unthanks, which he also manages. As well as producing all of the Unthanks' albums he has produced the compilation album Harbour of Songs for which he was commissioned by The Stables in Milton Keynes^[1] as part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad,^[2] an album for Belinda O'Hooley and albums for Jonny Kearney & Lucy Farrell.

Discography

EPs

• Jonny Kearney & Lucy Farrell: The North Farm Sessions (2010)^[3]

Albums

• Sherburn, Bartley & Scott's Last Night's Fun: Dubh (2001)^[4]
• Rachel Unthank and the Winterset: Cruel Sister (2005)
• Belinda O'Hooley: Music is My Silence (2005)
• Rachel Unthank and the Winterset: The Bairns (2007)
• Sherburn, Bartley & Scott's Last Night's Fun: Tempered (2007)^[5]
• The Unthanks: Here's the Tender Coming (2009)
• The Unthanks: Last (2011)
• Jonny Kearney & Lucy Farrell: Kite (2011)
• The Unthanks: The Songs of Robert Wyatt and Antony & the Johnsons (2011)
• Various artists: Harbour of Songs (2012)
• The Unthanks with Brighouse and Rastrick Brass Band (2012)
• The Unthanks: Songs from the Shipyards (2012)
• The Unthanks: Mount the Air (2015)
• The Unthanks: Archive Treasures 2005–2015 (2015)
• The Unthanks: The Songs and Poems of Molly Drake and The Songs and Poems of Molly Drake: Extras (2017)
• The Unthanks: Lines (2019)
• The Unthanks: Live And Unaccompanied (2020)
• The Unthanks: Sorrows Away (2022)

Broadcasts

In 2022 he gave his perspective on the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams in an "essay" broadcast on BBC Radio 3.^[6]

Personal life

McNally grew up in a mining village near Barnsley, Yorkshire.^[7] He was married to, but is now divorced from, Rachel Unthank,^[8] singer with the Unthanks.^[9][10] They have two sons: George, born in 2011;^[11] and Arthur, born in 2014.^[12]

References

1. Zierke, Reinhard (6 November 2015). "Harbour of Songs". Mainly Norfolk: English Folk and Other Good Music. Retrieved 24 July 2016.
2. White, Tom (8 August 2012). "Album: Adrian McNally – Harbour of Songs". For Folk's Sake. Retrieved 24 July 2016.
3. Zierke, Reinhard (26 December 2020). "Jonny Kearney & Lucy Farrell: The North Farm Sessions". Mainly Norfolk: English Folk and Other Good Music.
4. "Sherburn, Bartley & Scott's Last Night's Fun – Dubh". Discogs. Retrieved 11 November 2020.
5. "Sherburn, Bartley & Scott's Last Night's Fun – Tempered". Discogs. Retrieved 11 November 2020.
6. McNally, Adrian (12 October 2012). "Vaughan Williams: Belonging". BBC Radio 3. Retrieved 27 June 2024.
7. Crosby, John (September 2009). "The Unthanks: A new line-up". John Crosby music publicity/PR. Archived from the original on 23 November 2018. Retrieved 26 May 2017.
8. Rogers, Jude (25 March 2020). "Ongoing Adventures: Rachel Unthank's Favourite Albums". The Quietus. Retrieved 26 March 2020.
9. Adams, Tim (27 February 2011). "The Unthanks: 'We're miserable buggers and not afraid of it'". The Observer. Retrieved 28 April 2011.
10. Denselow, Robin (2 December 2009). "The Unthanks: Shepherd's Bush Empire, London". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
11. McNally, Adrian (8 September 2011). "The Unthanks get tender with brass". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 September 2011.
12. "Arthur Unthank McNally". Facebook. The Unthanks. 8 March 2014. Retrieved 30 October 2015.